Crane Lake, Minnesota.
Typical home $309,082 (+10.0% in a year). Duluth, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$287 (+22%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $28,005 +10%
- $281,078$309,082 since Sep 2025
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Crane Lake$1,622
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Crane Lake, MN rose 10.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crane Lake, St. Louis County, Minnesota
Crane Lake is a township of 98 people in St. Louis County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in St. Louis County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Louis County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Crane Lake is a township in St. Louis County in northern Minnesota, a very small community set among lakes and rivers near the Canadian border. Winters here are colder than in most of the country, while summers are warm and comfortable, and the year is fairly wet. Most homes are lived in by their owners, which gives the township a settled, neighborly feel.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and professional and business services. Across St. Louis County, job numbers dipped slightly over the past year and joblessness has risen a little, so local work can be harder to find than it was.
Things to do. Voyageurs National Park is one of the best known natural areas in the region and lies a longer drive away. Closer by, Sand Point Lake and the Vermilion River are both a short drive away, offering quiet water for boating, fishing and simply sitting by the shore.
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- 4%below the poverty line
What people in St. Louis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Louis County had 95,078 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 15° and lows near -8°; warmest in July, with highs near 75° and lows near 51°. About 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Orr 3E weather station, 23 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Louis County
- St. Lukes Hospital of DuluthGeneral hospital2,059FTE
- St. Marys Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,859FTE
- Smdc Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,607FTE
- University of Minnesota-DuluthUniversity or college1,539
- Duluth Public School DistrictSchool district1,287FTE
- St. Louis CountyGeneral government815
- Essentia HealthMedical office management services746
- Range Regional Health ServicesGeneral hospital692FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 343 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 41,741 people in all across the county; Crane Lake has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across St. Louis County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on St. Louis County and the Duluth, MN-WI metro.
Crane Lake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crane Lake$309,082
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Crane Lake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crane Lake — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.